Word: whitely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...through the tricky tides of Asian politics. He was raised a Christian and educated at Oxford, where his debating skill earned him the admiration of his English classmate, Anthony Eden. But once back home, Banda renounced Christianity in favor of Buddhism, threw off Western dress in favor of long white sarongs, and plunged into the movement that was to bring Ceylon independence within the Commonwealth in 1948. In 1951 he set up his own Marxist Ceylon Freedom Party. Five years later he was, as Eden had predicted, his country's Prime Minister...
...state of emergency over Ceylon-a volatile land that boasts the highest homicide rate in Asia. But next day, as Banda's like-minded colleague, Education Minister Wijayananda Dahanayake, took over the premiership, a strange quiet settled over the country. Taxis, buses and cars flew mourning flags of white; the only hint of violence lay in a rising wave of public feeling against the Buddhist clergy. In Colombo a two-mile-long queue waited five hours in the scorching sun to pass by Banda's coffin in the Rosemead Place bungalow. At first the police refused to admit...
...Peking, Red China's commissars scurried about putting the final touches on preparations for this week's celebration of the tenth anniversary of the Communist takeover in China. On the broad avenues of the capital, thousands of workers, wearing white kerchiefs on their heads, marched and countermarched in rehearsal for the big parade. All along the parade route, every bit of bare wall was decorated with portraits of Red China's leaders-Mao Tse-tung, Liu Shao-chi and Chou Enlai, in that order-and posters proclaiming that life is getting better and better in the people...
...savings and his term ran out, a friendly doctor treated him free. "I took massage and special exercises," says Cafe Filho. "I forced my muscles to move again." In 1956 Brazil's Varig airline flew him to the U.S. free for treatment by Heart Specialist Paul Dudley White...
...editor of Little Rock's Arkansas Gazette, during the city's 1957 segregationist riots. "I call myself an upholder of law and order." While Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus worked tirelessly against both law and order in his campaign to keep the city's schools lily-white, Editor Ashmore became a rallying point for Southern moderates, won a Pulitzer Prize for his calm editorial voice. Last week, surveying Little Rock's now-peaceful school scene, Harry Ashmore, 43, announced that he is leaving to take on a new job as consultant to the Fund...